Word: andersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holy Rollers gathered two Sundays ago in Virginia near Mulberry Gap on the Tennessee border. Their pastor, 60-year-old Rev. Hugh C. Anderson who had once been a Southern Methodist minister, taught school and run for the Legislature, had survived a rattlesnake bite last year, was ready this time to take up not one but three serpents as a test of faith. Holy Roller Anderson shoved both arms in a box holding two rattlers, one copperhead. He was bitten three times. While 100 Holy Rollers shouted and sang, Anderson reeled, was assisted from the platform and taken home...
...third was grounded at Khartoum with piston trouble, later crashed at Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia. This left two planes in the air, one a big, twin-motored Envoy flown by Pilot Max Findlay with three companions, the second a small single-engined Percival Vega Gull flown by Pilot Charles William Anderson Scott, winner of the 1934 England-Australia air race, and Co-Pilot Giles Guthrie...
...scene is any good Harvard game, a real big one of nation wide interest. Thirty or forty thousand people have streamed across Larz Anderson Bridge, have kept their own tickets, thank you, and are esconced safely in their seats somewhere between the score board and the loud speakers. And of this number, or any number, about 850 to 1000 people have been admitted free of charge...
Newcomers to the 1936-37 Who's Who in America: Physicist Albert Einstein, Senator Rose McConnel Long, Maine's Governor Louis Jefferson Brann, Stratospherists Orvil A, Anderson & Captain Albert William Stevens, Cinemactress Shirley Temple. Voluble Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo of Rochester, Minn, supplied the longest biography (151 lines), surpassing by one line Manhattan Lawyer Samuel Untermeyer...
Robert Snyder '88 takes his place and, inheriting as he will Anderson's scores, is not expected to bear too heavy burdens in his first year...